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Monday, November 21, 2016

Immigration Summit at Sac State Today

Keep the Dream AliveKeeping the Dream Alive Summit featuring
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker and media publisher Jose Antonio
Vargas as the keynote speaker. Vargas is the founder of Define American, a
media and culture nonprofit that seeks to elevate the conversation around
immigration and citizenship in America; and the founder .

Jose Antonio
Vargas left the Philippines for Northern California at 12 and has spent 23
years fighting to become a legal resident. He hasn’t succeeded, despite sharing
in a Pulitzer Prize at The Washington Post in 2008.

Now he says he is
fighting for thousands of “Dreamers” – young undocumented immigrants brought
here as children who finished high school and legally obtained their work
permits but could face deportation by the Trump administration, which has
called for the removal of the country’s 11 million undocumented immigrants.

On Monday, Vargas
– founder of Define American, a
nonprofit media and culture organization built around immigration and
citizenship, and editor of #EmergingUS – will be the keynote speaker at the Keeping
The Dream Alive Summit from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Sacramento State’s
University Union Ballroom.

The summit is
sponsored by the school’s Dreamer Resource Center and Full Circle Project to
help the campus’s estimated 700 undocumented students, plus those whose parents
are undocumented, said program coordinator Norma Mendoza.

The program
provides attorneys who consult with students who qualify for legal residence
under the Obama administration’s executive order, Deferred Action For Childhood
Arrivals, or DACA.